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From speeding over black sand beaches to walking behind waterfalls, descending into volcanoes, hiking on glaciers or driving across the wild Highlands: read about our Iceland travels within.
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At Skaftafell National Park, Gleam Knowledge, Experience Awe
Camping overnight in Skaftafell one gets the feeling a weeklong stay would barely do the region justice. Aside from all the activities that can be booked from the premises (including a daunting hike up Iceland’s highest mountain, Hvannadalshnjúkur), the area is rife…
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Singing Around Iceland
Accomplished English chorister Daniel Hutton is cycling 1.000 miles around Iceland for charity, singing for families in exchange for room and board. After participating in an exchange program between the ‘Good in Parts’ and ‘Kvenkonur Kópavogs’ choirs in early 2011, Daniel vowed…
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A Day In The Life Of Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir
What’s up, Silja? I’m working on what will hopefully become Iceland’s next constitution—and the first one written from scratch by Icelanders, although we’re getting a lot of pointers from abroad after our interactive method of work garnered the attention of the global…
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Skaftafell: Black Ice, Black Falls, Hyper-Colourful Experience
Standing around in the Skaftafell Visitors Centre during midday is more akin to being in a crowded shopping mall than at a nature reserve. It’s busy. Real busy. Don’t let that scare you off however—the busloads of tourists are all on their…
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Verslunarmannahelgi
Chances are you have not been properly introduced to the term Verslunarmannahelgi. This labour day / bank holiday equivalent, dedicated to Icelandic merchants, is celebrated every summer on the first Monday in August (and all through the preceding weekend). While only a…
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A Day In The Life Of Egill ‘Gillz’ Einarsson
What’s up, Gillz? There are four writers in Iceland who aren’t lazy, and Big Man is one of them. I have a day job; I get people in shape so they can wear their g-strings for two months a year when the…
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Bolungarvík Is The Bird Nerd’s Paradise
When most visitors to Iceland—or really, most people living the capital area—think of the Westfjords, Ísafjörður is usually the first place to spring to mind. Arguably the capital of the region, this is a town that, to me, feels more like a…
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A Day In The Life Of Guðmundur Jörundsson
What’s up, Guðmundur? I graduated last weekend in fashion design from the Iceland Academy of Arts, which was pretty nice. Now I’m working on a new men’s fashion line for both Herrafataverzlun Kormáks & Skjaldar and GK Reykjavík. Next week we’ll film…
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A Day In The Life Of Nanna Árnadóttir
What’s up, Nanna? Workin’ my merkin to the ground, man (disclaimer: I don’t have a merkin). Got my day job, my freelance work and doing rewrites for my debut novel cum tourist manual, ‘Zombie Iceland’, at night. It’s about a group of…
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Five Places You Should See / Trips You Should Take
Esja—That big mountain over there Close to the heart of every Reykjaviking—literally as well as metaphorically—is the mountain range Esja, located just north of Mosfellsbær, about a 20 km drive from the city centre. The most popular destination, the Þverfellshorn peak, can…
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Ten Mundane Things You Can’t Really Do In Iceland
While there are a number of totally wild and out there things to do in Iceland (at least fifty, according to the book), there are also a number of seemingly mundane things you can’t do. Well, you can technically do them, but…
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This Man Crossed Iceland With No Outside Help And He’ll Do It Again
Meet Louis-Philippe Loncke, art enthusiast-turned-engineer-turned explorer extraordinaire. Last summer Lou-Phi, as he likes to be called, completed an exploration first; when he crossed Iceland from its most northerly point, Rifstangi, to the most southerly, Kötlutangi, completely unsupported. Furthermore he plans to outdo…
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Oddsskarð: The Park At The End Of The World
Momentum singer Hörður Ólafsson is gently chanting at me through my super-sized Sennheisers. His message is something regarding “holding back”, but the virgin powder unfolding endlessly in front of me in a mad mountainous panorama begs for deflowering and on such a…
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Þorramatur: Spears Shall Be Shaken…
If you’re looking to imbibe some ‘traditional Icelandic cuisine’ (“Þorramatur”), you’re in luck, because this is about the only time of year sane people, Icelandic or otherwise, tend to do it. This year, the week-based Old Icelandic Calendar dictates that the month…
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Looking At Aurora Borealis
Hi everyone! Welcome to your holiday trip to Iceland! We know that you really only came here to avoid your family and watch TV in your hotel room, but surely you must have some trips planned too, right? There’s a whole country…
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Your Holiday-Looking-At-Aurora-Borealis Tips
Hi everyone! Welcome to your holiday trip to Iceland! We know that you really only came here to avoid your family and watch TV in your hotel room, but surely you must have some trips planned too, right? There’s a whole country…
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Things to do in Þórshöfn
10:30 The eagle has landed Looking out of the window, the shadow of our airplane is shrinking. Below us is Þorshöfn, a little gathering of houses surrounded by uninhabited pampas and the endless ocean. It is not even noon, but we’ve already…
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Survive Verslunarmannahelgi
This guide does not cover the basics. If you can’t remember to pack your sleeping bag or an extra pair of underwear, you shouldn’t go anywhere, anyway. For what we do have here: we cannot guarantee that it will prevent you from…
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Swimming Is Awesome!
It’s surprising that Iceland‘s amazing pools are still a secret to the outside world, considering it’s one of the only countries in the world that gets their hot water environmentally soundly and dirt-cheap (or should we say water-cheap) all year round. To…
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Tourists on the Street
We stopped to interview some lucky tourists on the street to see why they chose to visit Iceland. The following people graciously complied to dish out the details of their trip. Names: Mario and Will Country: Scotland Why did you want to…
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Swimming Pools In Iceland: The Formula For Water
Iceland is “all about the water” my mum said when she came to visit. She was referring to the dual influence of the Gulf Stream, making Iceland unusually warm for its latitude, and the country’s ubiquitous hot springs. Without the hot springs,…
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Swimming In Iceland: The Iceland Aquaphiles
If you’ve seen the Icelandic Tourist Board’s new ‘Inspired by Iceland’ video campaign, you may be under the impression that Iceland is always sunny and Icelanders are super-hip-dancing-machines. While that’s debatable, the scene where the tanned couple goes skinny-dipping and makes out…
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Tourists On The Street
We stopped to interview some lucky tourists on the street to see why they chose to visit Iceland. The following people graciously complied to dish out the details of their trip. Names: Marieke van Buren and Johan de Rooý Country: Netherlands Johan:…